Podcast appearances and mentions of Marion Brown

Listen to an interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Anthony Davis. He'll appear at the University of Indianapolis for a series of free events on February 10 and 11.  The New York Times has called Davis one of the “greatest living composers.” Davis has received attention worldwide for his orchestral and chamber compositions, but he's best known for his work in opera, including his groundbreaking 1986 production X, the Life and Times of Malcolm X. In 2020, Davis received the Pulitzer Prize in music for his opera The Central Park Five.  Prior to achieving notoriety as a composer, Davis had a prolific career as a jazz pianist, recording with prominent jazz artists including Marion Brown, Oliver Lake, Leroy Jenkins, David Murray, Wadada Leo Smith, and more.

Rejoice | Rev. Marion Brown & Rev. Jarrett Wallace | Chapel Roswell by Chapel Roswell

ORNETTE COLEMAN “THE SHAPE OF JAZZ TO COME” Hollywood, CA, May 22, 1959Lonely womanDon Cherry (cnt) Ornette Coleman (as) Charlie Haden (b) Billy Higgins (d) JOHN COLTRANE “ASCENSION” Englewood Cliffs, N.J., June 28, 1965Ascension (Edition I – Part 1)Freddie Hubbard, Dewey Johnson (tp) John Tchicai, Marion Brown (as) John Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp (ts) McCoy Tyner (p) Jimmy Garrison, Art Davis (b) Elvin Jones (d) CECIL TAYLOR “UNIT STRUCTURE” Englewood Cliffs, N.J., May 19, 1966StepsEddie Gale (tp-1) Jimmy Lyons (as-2) Makanda Ken McIntyre (as-3,oboe-4,b-cl-5) Cecil Taylor (p,bells-4) Henry Grimes, Alan Silva (b) Andrew Cyrille (d) ALBERT AYLER TRIO “SPIRITUAL UNITY” New York, July 10, 1964Ghosts (first variation)Albert Ayler (ts) Gary Peacock (b) Sunny Murray (d) PETER BROTZMANN OCTET “MACHINE GUN” Bremen, May, 1968Music for Han Bennink IPeter Brotzmann (ts,bar) Willem Breuker (ts,b-cl) Evan Parker (ts) Fred Van Hove (p) Peter Kowald, Buschi Niebergall (b) Han Bennink (d) Sven-Ake Johansson (d,perc) Continue reading Puro Jazz 16 de diciembre, 2024 at PuroJazz.

ORNETTE COLEMAN “THE SHAPE OF JAZZ TO COME” Hollywood, CA, May 22, 1959Lonely womanDon Cherry (cnt) Ornette Coleman (as) Charlie Haden (b) Billy Higgins (d) JOHN COLTRANE “ASCENSION” Englewood Cliffs, N.J., June 28, 1965Ascension (Edition I – Part 1)Freddie Hubbard, Dewey Johnson (tp) John Tchicai, Marion Brown (as) John Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp (ts) McCoy Tyner (p) Jimmy Garrison, Art Davis (b) Elvin Jones (d) CECIL TAYLOR “UNIT STRUCTURE” Englewood Cliffs, N.J., May 19, 1966StepsEddie Gale (tp-1) Jimmy Lyons (as-2) Makanda Ken McIntyre (as-3,oboe-4,b-cl-5) Cecil Taylor (p,bells-4) Henry Grimes, Alan Silva (b) Andrew Cyrille (d) ALBERT AYLER TRIO “SPIRITUAL UNITY” New York, July 10, 1964Ghosts (first variation)Albert Ayler (ts) Gary Peacock (b) Sunny Murray (d) PETER BROTZMANN OCTET “MACHINE GUN” Bremen, May, 1968Music for Han Bennink IPeter Brotzmann (ts,bar) Willem Breuker (ts,b-cl) Evan Parker (ts) Fred Van Hove (p) Peter Kowald, Buschi Niebergall (b) Han Bennink (d) Sven-Ake Johansson (d,perc) Continue reading Puro Jazz 16 de diciembre, 2024 at PuroJazz.

Record | Rev. Marion Brown | Chapel Roswell by Chapel Roswell

Rewind | Rev. Marion Brown | Chapel Roswell by Chapel Roswell

Brother Marion | Rev. Marion Brown | Chapel Roswell by Chapel Roswell

Ghost Light 2.0 | Rev. Marion Brown | Chapel Roswell by Chapel Roswell

Free The Opressed | Rev. Marion Brown | Chapel Roswell by Chapel Roswell

Side Effects | Rev. Marion Brown | Chapel Roswell by Chapel Roswell

Head Trash | Rev. Marion Brown | Chapel Roswell by Chapel Roswell

A Setting, A Problem, A Miracle And An Aftermath | Rev. Marion Brown | Chapel Roswell by Chapel Roswell

The Opening Ceremony | Rev. Marion Brown | Chapel Roswell by Chapel Roswell

The boys warned you things were going to get eclectic, but they may have outdone themselves this time, as the selections run the gamut from a jazz trio reimagining Bach preludes to a cutting edge big band arranger/composer tipping the cap to Cab Calloway to a night it the Georgia woods and is what we're hearing even music?   Plus, a thoughtful look at what happens when one of the better known ensembles of the eighties loses a pivotal member and expands its horizons past its signature format.  Adam Birnbaum – PRELUDES; Marion Brown – AFTERNOON OF A GEORGIA FAUN; WSQ  - METAMORPHOSIS; Darcy James Argue – DYNAMIC MAXIMUM TENSION.  During the pop matters segment strap yourself in for a quick trip to Japan.

Superlatives | Rev. Marion Brown | Chapel Roswell by Chapel Roswell

Amina Claudine Myers was one of the earliest members of the AACM, and if you're listening to this podcast, I'm pretty sure you know what the AACM is, but just in case you don't, the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians is an organization formed by Muhal Richard Abrams, Roscoe Mitchell and a few other musicians in Chicago in the mid-1960s. A tremendous number of the most important avant-garde jazz musicians of the mid to late 20th century and the 21st century have come out of the AACM, including Anthony Braxton, Henry Threadgill, Fred Anderson, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Wadada Leo Smith, Matana Roberts, Nicole Mitchell, Tomeka Reid, and Amina Claudine Myers. There's a tremendous book by trombonist and composer George Lewis, called A Power Stronger Than Itself, that's the best possible introduction to the group. You should absolutely read that if you're a fan of any of the musicians I just named.Now, all the founders and early members of the AACM worked together, supporting each other, and moving the music forward in large part by composing and performing original work. What's interesting — and this is something we talk about in this conversation — is that Amina Claudine Myers' early albums included some original music, but they also included interpretations of other people's compositions, specifically Marion Brown and Bessie Smith. But she always paired that music up with pieces of her own that demonstrated a really fascinating compositional voice that was a combination of jazz, gospel, blues, and classical music. She took all her influences and early training and combined them into something that sounded like nobody else out there, and was incredibly powerful.In addition to making her own records, she's been a part of albums by Lester Bowie, Henry Threadgill, Muhal Richard Abrams, Anthony Braxton, Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre, Bill Laswell, and many other people. Her latest release is a collection of duos with Wadada Leo Smith, the first time they've recorded together since 1969, and their first collaboration as leaders.I'm really glad I had the chance to interview her. We talked about a lot of things — the AACM, the role of spirituality in music and the way the term spiritual jazz is used to gatekeep certain things, her work with all the artists I just mentioned, her upbringing in Arkansas and Texas and how it influenced her writing... this is a really wide-ranging conversation that I think will be really interesting for you to hear. I thank you as always for listening.

Club Rules | Rev. Marion Brown | Chapel Roswell by Chapel Roswell

The Sabbath Conflict | Rev. Marion Brown | Chapel Roswell by Chapel Roswell

Estas dos palabras dan título a un álbum grabado por Ornette Coleman en doble cuarteto a finales de 1960 para el sello Atlantic. La obra —cuyo título completo es Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation— rompe las estructuras previas del jazzy apunta a un paroxismo nunca escuchado._____Has escuchadoAscension - Edition I (1965) / John Coltrane. John Coltrane, saxofón tenor; McCoy Tyner, piano; Jimmy Garrison, bajo; Elvin Jones, batería; Archie Schepp y Pharoah Sanders, saxofón tenor; John Tchicai y Marion Brown, saxofón alto; Art Davis, bajo. Impulse (1987)Hello Chi (1970) / Art Ensemble of Chicago. Fontella Bass, voz; Lester Bowie, trompeta; Roscoe Mitchell, flauta y saxofón alto; Joseph Jarman, flauta y saxofón alto; Malachi Favors, bajo. FreeFactory (2010)Simple Like (1969) / Anthony Braxton. Leo Smith, trompeta y mult. instrumentos; Anthony Braxton, saxofón alto y mult. instrumentos; Leroy Jenkins, violín y mult. instrumentos; Steve McCall, percusiones. BYG Records (1969)Sunday Morning Church (2003) / William Parker. Billy Bang, violín; Hamid Drake, batería; William Parker, contrabajo. Thirsty Ear (2003)Truth Is Marching in (1966) / Albert Ayler. Albert Ayler, saxofón tenor; Don Ayler, trompeta; Michel Sampson, violín; Bill Folwell y Henry Grimes, bajos; Beaver Harris, batería. Impulse (1998)_____Selección bibliográficaANDERSON, Iain, This Is Our Music: Free Jazz, the Sixties, and American Culture. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007BRADLEY, Francis R., Universal Tonality: The Life and Music of William Parker. Duke University Press, 2021CARLES, Philippe y Jean-Louis Comolli, Free Jazz: Black Power. Traducido por Juan Giner. Anagrama, 1973JENKINS, Todd S., Free Jazz and Free Improvisation: An Encyclopedia. Greenwood Press, 2004JOST, Ekkehard, Free jazz: une étude critique et stylistique du jazz des années 1960. Outre Mesure, 2002KOLODA, Richard, Holy Ghost: The Life & Death of Free Jazz Pioneer Albert Ayler. Jawbone Press, 2022MAZZOLA, Guerino y Paul B. Cherlin, Flow, Gesture, and Spaces in Free Jazz Towards a Theory of Collaboration. Springer, 2009ONSMAN, Andrys y Robert Burke, Experimentation in Improvised Jazz: Chasing Ideas. Routledge, 2019PARKER, William et al., Conversations. Rogueart, 2011—, Conversations II: Dialogues and monologues. Rogueart, 2015—, Conversations III: Dialogues and monologues. Rogueart, 2019—, Conversations IV. Rogueart, 2023PEYROU, Mariano, Free jazz: la música más negra del mundo. Anagrama, 2024RUSH, Stephen, Free Jazz, Harmolodics, and Ornette Coleman. Routledge, 2017SCHWARTZ, Jeff, Free Jazz: A Research and Information Guide. Routledge Music Bibliographies, 2018*SKLOWER, Jedediah, Free jazz, la catastrophe féconde: une histoire du monde éclaté du jazz en France (1960-1982). L'Harmattan, 2006SPICER, Daniel, Peter Brötzmann: Free-Jazz, Revolution and the Politics of Improvisation. Repeater, 2024STEINBECK, Paul, Message to Our Folks: The Art Ensemble of Chicago. The University of Chicago Press, 2017SZWED, John F., Space Is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra. Duke University Press, 2020TONELLI, Chris (Chris J.), Voices Found: Free Jazz and Singing. Routledge, 2019TOOP, David, En el maelström: música, improvisación y el sueño de la libertad antes de 1970. Caja Negra, 2018*WILMER, Val, As Serious As Your Life: Black Music and the Free Jazz Revolution, 1957-1977. Serpent's Tail, 2018 *Documento disponible para su consulta en la Sala de Nuevas Músicas de la Biblioteca y Centro de Apoyo a la Investigación de la Fundación Juan March

Bearing Fruit | Rev. Marion Brown | Chapel Roswell by Chapel Roswell

The Wolf, the Sheep, and the Shepherd | Rev. Marion Brown | Chapel Roswell by Chapel Roswell

Facing Evangelism | Rev. Marion Brown | Chapel Roswell by Chapel Roswell

Ghost Stories | Rev. Marion Brown | Chapel Roswell by Chapel Roswell

Easter | Rev. Marion Brown | Chapel Roswell by Chapel Roswell

Palm Sunday 2024 | Rev. Marion Brown | Chapel Roswell by Chapel Roswell

An Interview With Sandy | Rev. Marion Brown and Sandy Holiday | Chapel Roswell by Chapel Roswell

Stones and Scales | Rev. Marion Brown | Chapel Roswell by Chapel Roswell

Unclean Spirits | Rev. Marion Brown | Chapel Roswell by Chapel Roswell

New Year, New You | Rev. Marion Brown | Chapel Roswell by Chapel Roswell

The Gift of Transformation | Rev. Marion Brown | Chapel Roswell by Chapel Roswell

The Gift of the Unknown | Rev. Marion Brown | Chapel Roswell by Chapel Roswell

Rev. Marion Brown preaches from Mark 13.

The Gift of the Unknown | Rev. Marion Brown | Chapel Roswell by Chapel Roswell

Building Blocks | Rev. Marion Brown | Chapel Roswell by Chapel Roswell

Monsters Under The Bed | Rev. Marion Brown | Chapel Roswell by Chapel Roswell

Cards & Rules | Rev. Marion Brown | Chapel Roswell by Chapel Roswell

Linguistics, Translation & Word of God | Rev. Marion Brown feat. Dave Eberhard | Chapel Roswell by Chapel Roswell

That's Not Fair | Rev. Marion Brown | Chapel Roswell by Chapel Roswell

School Supplies | Rev. Marion Brown | Chapel Roswell by Chapel Roswell

Get Out Of The Boat | Rev. Marion Brown | Chapel Roswell by Chapel Roswell

Port Adventure: Dominican Republic | Rev. Marion Brown feat. Abigail Bridges | Chapel Roswell by Chapel Roswell

Industry veteran, musician, composer, producer and engineer Mark Bingham has had a long and decidedly eclectic career in music. We sat down to talk some jazz - specifically Archie Shepp and his 1965 release 'Fire Music' - and may have finally cracked the code to Rob's ambivalence to the genre. REALLY fun conversation! Songs discussed in this episode: Hambone (recorded live at the Village Gate March 28, 1965) - Archie Shepp; William Blake In Bakersfield - Mark Bingham; Doctor My Eyes - Jackson Brown; The First Girl I Loved - The Incredible String Band; Dream A Little Dream Of Me - Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong; Composition No. 122 - Anthony Braxton; The Way I Walk - The Cramps; Peripetie - Arnold Schoenberg; Hambone, Los Olvidados - Archie Shepp; I Can See For Miles - Petra Haden; Malcolm, Malcolm - Semper Malcolm - Archie Shepp; On The Corner - Miles Davis; Prelude To A Kiss - Duke Ellington; Prelude To A Kiss - Archie Shepp; The Girl From Ipanema - Stan Getz (featuring Astrud Gilberto); The Girl From Ipanema - Mike Tyson; The Girl From Ipanema - Archie Shepp; Shiny Happy People - R.E.M.; Insect Soup - Mark Bingham

Anchored | Rev. Marion Brown | Chapel Roswell by Chapel Roswell

Let's Go Fishing | Rev. Marion Brown | Chapel Roswell by Chapel Roswell

The Places You'll Go | Rev. Marion Brown | Chapel Roswell by Chapel Roswell

Calories Don't Count | Rev. Marion Brown | Chapel Roswell by Chapel Roswell

One More Place At The Table | Rev. Marion Brown | Chapel Roswell by Chapel Roswell

Rev. Marion Brown preaches from Matthew.

In previous episodes, we've talked about what people commonly understand as fusion, which drummer Lenny White, who appeared in episode two of this series, prefers to call jazz-rock. That's the version that starts with Miles Davis's Bitches Brew and Tony Williams' Lifetime and quickly branches out with Mahavishnu Orchestra and Return To Forever and Weather Report and on and on. But as we've continued the discussion, we've expanded the scope of inquiry to include adventurous funk and R&B fusion, which includes everything from P-Funk and Earth, Wind & Fire and the Ohio Players — and wow, do the Ohio Players deserve a place in the fusion conversation that they are very rarely granted — to Donald Byrd and Freddie Hubbard and especially George Duke.Adam Rudolph is a fusion artist in about as broad a sense as you can imagine. He's been a percussionist for close to 50 years, and should be much better known than he is. He's been around since the early '70s and has worked with everyone: Yusef Lateef, Fred Anderson, Don Cherry, Roscoe Mitchell, Pharoah Sanders, Sam Rivers, Wadada Leo Smith, Herbie Hancock, Maulawi, Foday Musa Suso, Hassan Hakmoun, Jon Hassell… he's part of the Bill Laswell company of players, too, so he's on a zillion records through that connection. Plus he leads two main groups of his own, Moving Pictures and the Go! Organic Orchestra, which have made many, many albums and even crossed over with each other a time or two.Adam and I had a really fascinating conversation over the course of two phone calls. The impetus was Symphonic Tone Poem For Brother Yusef, a collaboration between him and reeds player Bennie Maupin that's just been released. Bennie Maupin of course is a legend on his own — he played on Miles Davis's Bitches Brew and On The Corner, he was a member of Marion Brown's group in the 1960s, he was in Mwandishi and the Headhunters with Herbie Hancock, he played with Woody Shaw, and his own album from 1974, The Jewel In The Lotus, is an absolutely brilliant record that blends spiritual jazz with almost New Age ambient music. There's really no other album like it; if you've never heard it, it's a must-hear. So obviously Rudolph and I talk about Maupin, whom he's worked with off and on for decades, but we also talk about Laswell and about Lateef and about the whole idea of world music and fusion-as-creative-mindset that I've been discussing with every artist I've interviewed for the podcast this year. We talk a lot about the philosophy that goes into bringing together musicians from all sorts of traditions, from all over the globe, and finding ways to make their ideas flow together. That's what he does with Go! Organic Orchestra, the membership of which is completely open and the music of which is created through spontaneous conduction. So he was really the ideal person to talk about all this stuff with. I think you'll come away from this episode with a lot to think about. I know I did. And I hope you enjoy listening to it. All the music you'll hear, by the way, comes from Symphonic Tone Poem For Brother Yusef. 

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